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tongue muscle

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The muscular portion of the tongue. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscles_of_tongue ]

Term info

Label

tongue muscle

Synonyms
  • muscle of tongue
  • muscle organ of tongue
  • skeletal muscle tissue of tongue
  • tongue skeletal muscle
  • tongue skeletal muscle tissue
database cross reference
Subsets

pheno_slim

depicted by

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c6/Gray1019.png

has related synonym

musculi linguae

homology notes

The lamprey head contains another group of muscles, the epi- and hypo-branchial muscles (EBM and HBM), derivatives of anterior trunk myotomes. (...) The origin and the migration pattern of HBM precursors are very similar to that of the gnathostome MPP, especially to that of the tongue muscle precursors. Other evidence of homology of lamprey HBM to the gnathostome tongue muscle is that HBM is innervated by the nerve termed the hypoglossal nerve based on its morphological position associated with the head/trunk interface. (...) The HBM-specific expression of the LampPax3/7 gene is consistent with the homology of this muscle to the gnathostome tongue muscle, or to the hypobranchial series as a whole (including the infrahyoid and possibly the diaphragm in mammals).[well established][VHOG]

id

UBERON:0000378